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Science & Breakthroughs

The case for eating blueberries every day, according to a nutritionist

Optimist Daily 2026-08-27
The case for eating blueberries every day, according to a nutritionist

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM There’s a specific kind of health advice that asks a lot of you: meal prep, supplements with confusing ingredient lists, routines that cost more than they should. Blueberries aren’t that. They can be inexpensive, they need almost no preparation, and the research keeps giving you more reasons to eat them. Nutrition researchers tend to use a cup a day as the benchmark. Here’s what that cup will bring you. What’s in a cup A single cup of blueberries has vitamin

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